Example sentences of "draw up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | Mother and baby lie side by side : Mrs Williams , represented as wearing day-clothes , is propped up on her right elbow , staring adoringly at her deceased infant ; the latter is wrapped in a fine close-fitting linen shroud , drawn up over the feet rather than under , and tied at the knees with a fairly broad linen band . |
| 4 | The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families . |
| 5 | If the securities are to be listed in the member state where the issuer has its registered office , the listing particulars must be drawn up under the laws of , and approved by , the competent authority in that member state . |
| 6 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 7 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 8 | Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice . |
| 9 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 10 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 11 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 12 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 13 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 14 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 15 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 16 | The accusation came after Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister — under fierce Labour and consumer group pressure — produced a list drawn up by the manufacturers on the 70 microwave oven models tested by Government scientists . |
| 17 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 18 | Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists … |
| 19 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 20 | In a feverish rush , an agreement was finally drawn up in the corridors outside the court room , under which Virgin were entitled to one more album of Sting 's songs ( Synchronicity ) and also retained the ‘ exploitation ’ rights on existing material for a further eight to ten years . |
| 21 | Paul lay in the sunlight curled up into a little ball , quite still , and Blyth was lying on his stomach , hands under his cheek , the stump of his left leg drawn up in the flowers and the grass , sticking out from his shorts like some monstrous erection . |
| 22 | We left Paris behind and drove off on a series of flyovers and underpasses , before drawing up outside the gates of Fort St Nogent on the outskirts . |
| 23 | As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates . |
| 24 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |